PLM World 2005 Conference News

Posted on May 26th, 2005 | 570 commentshttp%3A%2F%2Fplmexchange.net%2Fplm-world-2005-conference-news%2FPLM+World+2005+Conference+News2005-05-26+19%3A31%3A43adminhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.tolsnet.com%2Fplmexchange%2F%3Fp%3D57

PLM World 2005 Conference Enables Users of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Technology to Learn About New Solutions and Future Product Directions and Share Best Practices
Thursday May 26, 2:54 pm ET
Program Brings the World’s Largest PLM User Community Together to Explore How PLM Software Tools Increase Innovation, Collaboration, Productivity
Billed as Best Conference to Date Based on Strong Support From UGS Executives and Product Development Teams

Linux Support

Posted on May 26th, 2005 | 560 commentshttp%3A%2F%2Fplmexchange.net%2Flinux-support%2FLinux+Support2005-05-26+13%3A44%3A43adminhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.tolsnet.com%2Fplmexchange%2F%3Fp%3D56

UGS Announces Linux Support Plans for its Teamcenter and NX Solutions at PLM World May 2, 2005

This is great news for the industry. We now have more choices in platforms to choose from: Unix, Linux, Windows (32bit), and Windows (64bit).
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NX Export Formats

Posted on May 23rd, 2005 | 550 commentshttp%3A%2F%2Fplmexchange.net%2Fnx-export-formats%2FNX+Export+Formats2005-05-23+18%3A49%3A25adminhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.tolsnet.com%2Fplmexchange%2F%3Fp%3D55

NX can export the following formats: (Packaged with NX3, other export formats provided by other vendors)

Part -NX part file, with or without parameters (.prt)

Parasolid -Solid body with no parameters, used to import into other Parasolid aware programs (.x_t or .xmt_txt)

User Defined Feature -User built/defined feature, any group of features and solids not in core NX (.prt special format, was .udf)

CGM -2d black&white image, will result in many lines to represent the view (.cgm)

STL -Stereo Lithography of the solid body/sheet body, used for 3D printers (.stl)

Polygon File -special 3D format (.ply)

Author HTML -Create HTML pages with images of the views (.htm)

Teamcenter Visualization -JT based solid representation of the solid body (.jt)

VRML -Virtual Reality Model, represent solid body for web based applications (.wrl not commonly used anymore)

PNG -Vector based color image format (.png)

JPEG -Compressed color image (.jpg)

GIF -Color image (.gif)

TIFF -color image (.tif)

BMP -Pixel based color image (.bmp)

IGES -3D wireframe (.igs)

STEP203 -3D sheetbody (.stp standard 203)

STEP214 -3D sheetbody (.stp standard 214)

DXF/DWF -AutoCad Drawing Export Format (.dxf or .dwg)

2D Exchange -Used to mostly convert to and from AutoCad format (.prt, .dxf, .dwf, or igs)

Heal Geometry -3D solid body, fixes missing and overlapping sheet bodies into solid bodies (.prt)

V4 CATIA Solids -3D Catia V4 file format (.model)

These formats are availalable from UGS, some of these formats require additional licenses to use, prices vary depending on the supplier of the export format.

Personal Menus

Posted on May 16th, 2005 | 530 commentshttp%3A%2F%2Fplmexchange.net%2Fpersonal-menus%2FPersonal+Menus2005-05-16+17%3A19%3A04adminhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.tolsnet.com%2Fplmexchange%2F%3Fp%3D53

NX3 introduces a menu feature called “Personalized menus”. This is similiar to the behavior found on many Windows applications. With this feature only the most used menu options are displayed with an option to show all on the bottom of the menu.
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List of Companies that use NX

Posted on May 12th, 2005 | 507 commentshttp%3A%2F%2Fplmexchange.net%2Flist-of-companies-that-use-nx%2FList+of+Companies+that+use+NX2005-05-12+13%3A16%3A25adminhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.tolsnet.com%2Fplmexchange%2F%3Fp%3D50

NX is the latest name for UGS CAD product. It has previously gone by the name of Unigraphics, UG, and Unigraphics NX.
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